NONFICTION

Winner:

Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea:
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Finalists:

Jacques Barzun – From Dawn to
Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural
Life, 1500 to the Present
Alice Kaplan – The Collaborator:
The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
David Levering Lewis – W.E.B.
Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the
American Century, 1919-1963
Patrick Tierney – Darkness in
El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists
Devastated the Amazon